The McCarty house is fully cleaned out now. It’s a big difference, and there are some new issues we’re discovering now that we can mostly see everything.
For instance, here’s the before and after of the small bonus room that we’ll be turning into a bedroom. It looks narrow, but it’s about 10’x11′ and we’re not planning on sacrificing any of that square footage for the closet.
There’s a large chunk in the ceiling that’s caving in. I didn’t think it was leaking any longer, but clearly the carpet was hiding that.
The wood floors downstairs are a bit rough, but they should look pretty good with a fresh refinish.
Unfortunately, the once beautifully finished basement had to be completely torn out due to water damage and mold. We’ll be scraping up the thinset, but there’s no power in the house yet.
Besides some damage to the walls, upstairs is in pretty decent shape. The floors will look pretty damn good after a full refinish.
There’s a ton of work to do here, and this doesn’t even include exterior stuff like roof repair, brick work to save some areas that are failing, etc.
We’ll probably have our demo crew back to rip out some stuff we were undecided about, like the kitchen tile. Initially, I thought we could lay new flooring over the top, but that’s not looking like it’d be feasible.
Now we need to keep hounding DTE until they come back out to get the power on. The previous occupant wasn’t paying their bill, so DTE finally came out, removed their electric meter, and locked the box down.